Marty's Ƀent Issue #1212: Save a friend, tell them to get out of the Coinbase casino I would call it a shame, but it's really worse than that.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #1069: Bitcoin is separate from "crypto" What really matters is the quality of Bitcoin's monetary policy and the public's confidence that the policy will be respected in the long-run.
Transcripts #200: Ansel Linder Marty sits down with Ansel Linder to discuss Bitcoin fork wars, QE, inflation v. deflation, and much more.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #708: Important reminder You can't dictate how people should use bitcoin. Bitcoin has certain properties that enable different use cases. The predominant use case will fluctuate over time. Get over it.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #532: Emergent, grassroots coordination Bitcoin's emergent, grassroots nature is the crux of the strength afforded to its assurances of sound monetary policy, distributed consensus, and overall progress towards the Ideal of sufficient decentralization.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #472: This should end well A system addicted to debt sows its own demise at a certain point because it creates too much opportunity costs, forcing people to choose work over breeding, setting in play a long-term decay in the funding base of the system.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #457: People don't like not having control A formal governance structure introduces more social attack surface that creates the potential for motivated individuals or groups to exploit the process to their benefit.
Marty's Ƀent Issue #337: Have altcoins lost their value prop? Even if you believe Blockstream is a Bilderberg-backed evil corporation that is dead set on controlling Bitcoin's development and eventually enslaving the human race via the corn, there is no denying that they have made Bitcoin stronger with this launch.
